latimesblogs.latimes.com — We've come a long way since Pong and Space Invaders. But video and computer games are still striving to be both interactive and realistic. Have you seen the "Saturday Night Live" skit of the interview with Grand Theft Auto IV's main characters, Niko and Vlad? Their arms move imprecisely, as if they're puppets underwater.
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reddevil3Jun 17, 2008
All those techniques already allow for very realistic rendering. Problem is, hardware still isn't strong enough to support all those algorithms on a bigger scale.
heresy_fnordJun 18, 2008
Who cares. Many games today don't need 349085734985734895734209587349857342908573285 fps to look good. Many games are capped at 60fps and those games are generally fine as long as they stay above 20fps. It's a tired argument. "It's horrible I can't take it because I'm not getting 800 billion frames a second." Buy a better computer or f**k off.
Closed AccountJun 18, 2008
Except in crysis on extreme settings.
nephilimxJun 18, 2008
"the natural inefficiencies of those 1000watt supplies. Which btw have really bad quiescent current draws, so your lucky to get 60 percent efficient."Brands like antec are 80+ rated, you would only get 60 if ur a noob and get a cheapass mainstream popular PSU like coolmaster.
topher06Jun 18, 2008
A GPU really has no bearing on how well a character move's their arms in a game. Chock the bad movement in GTA4 to the fact that they really didn't put much effort into next generation technology in GT4A. Look at games like Uncharted or MGS4 have more realistic motion. It comes down to how well the developers captured the motion and modeled the characters. A stick figure can move realistically if its motion capture was done right, throwing a billion more pixels at it doesn't improve its movement.
xnibxJun 19, 2008
216w for a hard disk, ok you sure know a lot about computers. And your links are f**ked by digg, not that it would matter since in many of those cases those are WHOLE SYSTEM consumption.
tg16Jun 19, 2008
Big deal! The Playstation 2 can do Toy Story quality graphics according to Sony.
gruntboyxJul 3, 2008
fine. Lets just say the entire system idles for 150 watts (Its America your free to be wrong). .15 KW *24hrs * 30 days*.10cents/KWH = $10.80 The point stands. You just pissed AT LEAST 10 bucks and 108Kwh down the drain leaving the computer on. You can argue all day long how much, but thats not the point. Its that 108KwH is far more than what a tv or game console consumes in "stand-by"
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